Jori Hulkkonen (born 28 September 1973), is a
Finnish DJ and a producer of
house music
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,
originally from
Kemi
Kemi (; ; ; ) is a cities of Finland, town and municipalities of Finland, municipality of Finland. It is located approximately from the city of Tornio and the Finland–Sweden border, Swedish border. The distance to Oulu is to the south and t ...
, Finland. Hulkkonen started his career in the early 1990s when he worked with
Jukka Hautamäki,
Tuomas Salmela and
Ari Ruokamo for their own label
Lumi Records. In 1996 Hulkkonen signed a record deal with
French record label
F Communications; his debut album of the same year was called ''Selkäsaari Tracks''. Internationally, Hulkkonen's most popular recording is the single ''
Sunglasses at Night
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'', a version of
Corey Hart's 1980s hit, created together with
Canadian
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producer
Tiga. His most recent solo full-length ''Dualizm'', released in 2005, featured collaborations with
John Foxx
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,
Nick Triani,
Tiga,
Jerry Valuri, and
José González. Following up on the success of the Lo-Fiction single on Dualizm on which they collaborated, Jori began a synth-pop side project with
Jerry Valuri called Processory, which released its self-titled debut in February 2007.
Jori Hulkkonen has also released records under such aliases as ''Zyntherius'', ''Eternal Boyman'', ''Bobby Forrester'' and ''Jii Hoo''. He has worked on remixes to
Telepopmusik's second single ''Love Can Damage Your Health''. He has also featured his own radio shows on Finnish stations ''
Radiomafia
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'' and ''YleX''. Starting from January 2012 Jori has had biweekly radioshow on
Bassoradio.
References
External links
The official Jori Hulkkonen siteJori Hulkkonen @ pHinnWebJori Hulkkonen @ Discogs.comJori Hulkkonen interview about “Errare Machinale Est” albumJori's show on Bassoradio
1973 births
Finnish male musicians
Living people
People from Kemi
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